Differential Patterns of Abnormal Activity and Connectivity in the Amygdala Prefrontal Circuitry in Bipolar-I and Bipolar-NOS Youth
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1 NEW RESEARCH Differential Patterns of Abnormal Activity and Connectivity in the Amygdala Prefrontal Circuitry in Bipolar-I and Bipolar-NOS Youth Cecile D. adouceur, Ph.D., Tiffany Farchione, M.D., Vaibhav Diwadkar, Ph.D., Patrick Pruitt, B.S., Jacqueline Radwan, B.S., David A. Axelson, M.D., Boris Birmaher, M.D., Mary. Phillips, M.D. Objective: The functioning of neural systems supporting emotion processing and regulation in youth with bipolar disorder not otherwise specified (BP-NOS) remains poorly understood. We sought to examine patterns of activity and connectivity in youth with BP-NOS relative to youth with bipolar disorder type I (BP-I) and healthy controls (HC). Method: Participants (18 BP-I youth, 16 BP-NOS youth, and 18 HC) underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging while performing two emotional-face gender labeling tasks (happy/neutral, fearful/neutral). Analyses focused on a priori neural regions supporting emotion processing (amygdala) and emotion regulation (ventromedial prefrontal cortex (VMPFC), dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DPFC). Connectivity analyses used VMPFC as a seed region. Results: During the happy-face task, BP-I youth had greater amygdala, VMPFC, and DPFC activity to happy faces whereas BP-NOS youth had reduced VMPFC and DPFC activity to neutral faces relative to HC, and reduced amygdala, VMPFC, and DPFC activity to neutral faces versus BP-I. During the fearful-face task, BP-I youth had reduced DPFC activity to fearful faces whereas BP-NOS youth had reduced DPFC activity to neutral faces relative to HC. BP-NOS youth showed greater VMPFC-DPFC connectivity to happy faces relative to HC and BP-I youth. BP-I youth showed reduced VMPFC-amygdala connectivity to fearful faces relative to HC and BP-NOS youth. Conclusions: This is the first study to document differential patterns of abnormal neural activity in, and connectivity between, neural regions supporting emotion processing and regulation in BP-NOS versus BP-I youth. Findings suggest that despite similarities in symptom presentation, there are differential patterns of abnormal neural functioning in BP-NOS and BP-I relative to HC, which might reflect an intermediate state in the course of BP-I illness. Future longitudinal studies are needed to relate these findings with future conversion to BP-I/II. J. Am. Acad. Child Adolesc. Psychiatry, 2011;50(12): Key words: pediatric bipolar disorder, fmri, functional connectivity, emotional information processing Bipolar disorder (BP) is a devastating psychiatric illness that affects 2% to 5% of the adult population and remains a leading cause of morbidity, functional impairment, and completed suicide. 1 Abnormal emotion processing and regulation, marked by swings from depression to mania, are key clinical features of the illness. 2 Accurate diagnosis of BP has critical Supplemental material cited in this article is available online. implications for treatment, yet identifying BP in youth can be challenging. Many youth present with manic symptoms but fail to meet strict DSM-IV criteria for bipolar disorder type I/II (BP-I or II). Those with subthreshold symptoms of BP, often receive the diagnosis of bipolar disorder not otherwise specified (BP-NOS). BP- NOS youth are particularly vulnerable because they are at very high risk for developing BP-I/II. One way to help identify which BP-NOS youth are likely to develop BP-I/II in the future is to elucidate objective markers that may index VOUME 50 NUMBER 12 DECEMBER
2 ADOUCEUR et al. pathophysiologic mechanisms of BP, which may not be observable at the behavioral level. 3,4 Elucidating such markers could impact early intervention strategies. Neuroimaging studies in BP-I youth indicate functional abnormalities in neural systems supporting emotion processing and regulation. 5 One study reported abnormally elevated amygdala activity to neutral faces in BP-I youth, particularly in those who perceived these faces as threatening. 6 Other findings indicated elevated amygdala and striatal activity, 7,8 and reduced lateral prefrontal cortical activity 7 during passive viewing of happy faces in euthymic BP-I versus controls, and elevated amygdala activity during gender labeling of happy and fearful faces in BP-I youth in manic, euthymic, and depressed mood. 9 Additional findings show greater striatal activity to positive emotional scenes in BP-I versus healthy youth, 10 and greater amygdala activity to negative emotional words in euthymic BP-I versus controls. 11 In contrast to studies focused on regional changes in brain activity, connectivity analyses examine the integrity of distributed neural systems by correlating activity in different regions over time. One study documented significantly reduced VPFC regulation of the amygdala response during an emotion labeling task in manic BP-I adults. 12 Another study reported significantly reduced connectivity between the amygdala and cortical association regions in BP-I youth versus controls while processing neutral faces perceived as threatening. 13 Taken together, these findings suggest that functional abnormalities in neural systems supporting emotion processing and regulation may underlie the pathophysiology of BP in youth. 14,15 This study aimed at performing a first-stage, cross-sectional examination of the extent to which BP-I and BP-NOS youth share a common neuropathophysiology, by examining neural systems supporting emotion processing and regulation in both youth groups relative to healthy youth. We employed an emotional face gender labeling task 16 known to reliably activate subcortical regions (i.e., amygdala) implicated in emotion processing 17 and ventromedial prefrontal cortex (VMPFC), ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (VPFC), and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DPFC) implicated in emotion regulation, 5 reported to be functionally impaired in BP-I youth. 15 Given the rich connections between the amygdala and the VMPFC and the role of the VMPFC in regulating activity in the amygdala, particularly during implicit or automatic emotion regulation tasks such as the task employed in the present study, our connectivity analyses included the VMPFC as a seed region. We hypothesized that, relative to healthy controls (HC), both BP-I and BP-NOS youth would show significantly elevated amygdala and reduced VMPFC/VPFC and DPFC activity to emotional faces but not to neutral faces. Given that only a fraction of BP-NOS youth might convert to BP-I/II, we hypothesized that the magnitude of elevated amygdala and reduced VMPFC/VPFC and DPFC would be attenuated relative to that shown by BP-I youth (versus HC). The paucity of extant connectivity findings in BP prevented us to make specific hypotheses regarding connectivity abnormalities in BP-I or BP-NOS youth. Nevertheless, because of the role of VMPFC in implicit emotion regulation and evidence of altered functioning of VMPFC in BP-I youth (see 5 ), we focused our analyses on VMPFC connectivity while processing emotional and neutral faces and hypothesized reduced VMPFC amygdala connectivity to emotional faces in both BP-I and BP-NOS youth (versus HC). METHOD Participants Useable fmri data were acquired from 52 youth (8 17 years old) with BP-I (n 18), BP-NOS (n 16), as well as age- and sex-matched healthy control youth (HC) (n 18) (Table 1). The study was approved by the University of Pittsburgh Institutional Review Board. Parents signed consent forms; youth signed assent forms. BP-I and BP-NOS youth were recruited from the following sources: Course and Outcome of Bipolar Youth multicenter study (Pittsburgh site); ongitudinal Assessment of Manic Symptoms multicenter study (Pittsburgh site); Child and Adolescent Bipolar Services outpatient program at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). Participants recruited from these sources were interviewed in their respective studies by the same child psychiatrists (B. B., D. A.) or experienced clinicians using the same semi-structured interviews for children and parents. HC were recruited from the community control group in the Bipolar Offspring Study. 18 They had neither lifetime psychiatric diagnoses nor first-degree relatives with a history of recurrent unipolar depression, mania, hypomania, or psychosis, nor second-degree relative with a history of mania, hypomania, or psychosis. All youth were assessed using the Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School Aged Children Present and ifetime Version (K- SADS-P 19 ). Interrater reliability was excellent ( 1276 VOUME 50 NUMBER 12 DECEMBER 2011
3 ABNORMA CONNECTIVITY IN BIPOAR YOUTH TABE 1 Demographic and Clinical Characteristics of Subjects With Bipolar Disorder Type I (BP-I) and Bipolar Disorder Not Otherwise Specified (BP-NOS) and in Healthy Controls (HC) Group BP-I (N 18) BP-NOS (N 16) HC (N 18) Characteristic Mean SD Mean SD Mean SD Statistic p Value Age at scan (y) F 2, Socio-economic status a F 2, Age of illness onset (y) b t No. of comorbid diagnoses t No. of medications t K-MRS c t K-DRS c t MFQ parent version c 14.0 e e f 1.2 F 2, MFQ child version F 2, CAS c 25.7 e e f 2.2 F 2, SCARED parent version c 18.4 e e f 3.0 F 2, SCARED child version c 18.5 e e f 5.1 F 2, N N N Male , Comorbid Disorders (current/lifetime) Anxiety disorder 8/11 5/10 ADHD 8/9 10/10 Oppositional defiant 2/16 6/6 disorder or conduct disorder Medication No medication 2 0 ithium 6 1 Atypical Antipsychotic Antiepileptic 6 2 Antidepressant 6 4 Stimulants 6 8 Other d 10 7 Note: CAS Child Affect ability Scale (range, 0 80); K-DRS 12-item depression questionnaire from the Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School-Age Children (KSADS) 20 ; K-MRS KSADS Mania Rating Scale 21 ; MFQ Mood and Feelings Questionnaire (range, 0 68); SCARED Screen for Childhood Anxiety and Related Disorders (range, 0 82). a Measured using the Hollingshead Four-Factor Index. 22 b Because the validity of DSM-IV diagnostic criteria for preschool-aged children has not been established, the minimum age of onset for BP-I and BP-NOS was set at 4 years. c Significant main effect of group. d Medications used to treat medical condition (e.g., allergies, diabetes). e,f Means with different letters in their superscript differ at the p.05 level, with Bonferroni correction for all diagnoses, including differentiating BP-I and BP-NOS). BP-I youth met DSM-IV diagnostic criteria for BP-I. BP-NOS was defined as clinically relevant BP symptoms that did not fulfill DSM-IV criteria for BP-I or BP-II. Subjects were also required to have a minimum of elated mood plus two associated DSM symptoms or irritable mood plus three DSM associated symptoms and change in functioning. These symptoms were required to last a minimum of 4 hours within a 24-hour period, and at least 4 cumulative lifetime days meeting the criteria. Most of the BP-NOS youth had both elated and irritable mood associated with manic symptoms; one had a history of elated mood only and one had a history of irritable mood only. Age of onset for a BP-I or BP-NOS diagnosis was considered to be when youth first met DSM-IV criteria for a major mood episode or COBY study criteria for BP-NOS. Given that the validity of VOUME 50 NUMBER 12 DECEMBER
4 ADOUCEUR et al. DSM-IV diagnostic criteria for preschool-aged children has not been established, the minimum age of onset for BP-I or BP-NOS was set at 4 years. 23 To determine mood state on the day of the scan, clinicians administered the KSADS-P Mania Rating Scale (K-MRS) 21 and the KSADS-P Depression Rating Scale (K-DRS) 20 immediately before the scan. Parents completed the following questionnaires about their children: the Mood and Feelings Questionnaire (MFQ), 24 to assess depression symptoms; the Child Affect ability Scale (CAS), 25 to assess mood lability, and the Screen for Childhood Anxiety and Related Disorders (SCARED) 26 to assess anxiety symptoms. Youth completed the child self-report version of the MFQ and SCARED. Socioeconomic status (SES) was measured with the Hollingshead Four-Factor Index. 22 Handedness was determined using the Edinburgh Handedness Inventory. 27 At the time of scanning, 33% (n 6) of BP-I and 37.5% (n 6) of BP-NOS youth were euthymic (K- MRS 12 and K-DRS 10); 22% (n 4) of BP-I and 0.6% (n 1) of BP-NOS youth had clinically significant manic symptoms 23 with no or minimal depression symptoms (K-MRS 12 and K-DRS 10); 0% of BP-I and 0.6% (n 1) of BP-NOS youth had clinically significant depression symptoms with few manic symptoms (K-MRS 12 and K-DRS 10); and 44% (n 8) of BP-I and 50% (n 8) of BP-NOS youth were in mixed mood state (K-MRS 12 and K-DRS 10). Exclusion criteria included the following: IQ 70, history of head trauma, neurological disorder, substance abuse/dependence, developmental delay, handeye coordination problem, and mood disorders secondary to substance abuse, medical conditions, pregnancy, or presence of metal in the body. All medication usage over the past 48 hours was recorded. Youth medicated for BP and ADHD were not excluded from the study. fmri Paradigm An emotional face gender labeling event-related fmri paradigm was used. 28 It comprised two, wellvalidated 6-minute fast event-related neuroimaging tasks examining neural activity to happy versus neutral (happy face task) and fearful versus neutral (fearful face task) emotional facial expressions. 29 The happy face task comprised happy and neutral facial expressions whereas the fearful face task comprised fearful face task comprised fearful and neutral facial expressions; each task was presented as a separate run. In both tasks, stimuli were gray-scale digitized photographs from that were of fixed size ( cm), cropped, and morphed using software to depict emotional expressions ranging from neutral (0%) to mild (50%) to prototypical (100%) intensity of each emotion. Each stimulus was presented for 2 sec. with a mean inter-stimulus interval of 4.9 sec. during which a fixation cross was displayed. In each task, subjects viewed 20 neutral, 20 mild, and 20 prototypical faces. The order of which task would be presented first was counterbalanced across subjects. Subjects were asked to respond with their index finger or the middle finger to indicate whether the actor in the picture was a woman or a man. They were also asked to try to respond as quickly but also as accurately as possible. Because of the complexity of the design, in the current study we focused analyses on the prototypical (100%) and neutral faces in each task. fmri Data Acquisition A 3.0T Siemens Allegra MRI scanner was used to acquire 3D Sagittal MPRAGE images (TE:2.48 ms, TR:1630 ms, IT:800ms, flip angle:8, field of view:200 mm, slice thickness:0.8 mm, image matrix: , 208 slices) and mean blood-oxygenation-level-dependent (BOD) images. We used a reverse gradient-echo EPI sequence (34 axial slices, 3-mm thickness, 0-mm gap; TR/TE 2000/25 msec, FOV 205 mm, matrix 64 64), parallel to the AC PC line and encompassing the entire cerebrum and the majority of the cerebellum. Participants were placed in a simulator to habituate to the scanning environment and minimize head movement. Behavioral Data Mean percent accuracy scores and correct-trial reaction times were computed for each condition for each participant. Data were analyzed using mixed ANCOVA models in SPSS, with group as betweensubject and emotion condition as within-subject variables, with age and sex as covariates. fmri Data Analysis Preprocessing. Data preprocessing was performed using SPM5 ( Functional data for each participant were first corrected for differences in acquisition time between slices, realigned using the first slice as a reference, and unwarped to correct for static inhomogeneity of the magnetic field and movement by inhomogeneity interactions. Each volume was co-registered by aligning the first scan from each volume to the first scan of the first volume with regard to the subject s MPRAGE image and segmented. Data were normalized to Montreal Neurological Institute standardized template and spatially smoothed with a Gaussian kernel of 6-mm fullwidth at half-maximum. Individual and Group-level Analyses. Individual, or first-level, analyses, model specification, and estimation were performed using a General inear Model (GM) within SPM5. For each task (happy and fearful) separately, the first-level fixed-effect model was defined by entering emotion condition (emotional face: happy or fearful, neutral) as separate conditions in an event-related design matrix with fixation cross as 1278 VOUME 50 NUMBER 12 DECEMBER 2011
5 ABNORMA CONNECTIVITY IN BIPOAR YOUTH baseline. Uncorrelated low frequency noise was removed by using high-pass filter (cut-off 128 sec). Motion-related regressors were included as covariates of no interest in the GM to control signal change related to motion. Contrast maps from first-level analyses (i.e., happy face task: happy minus fixation, neutral face minus fixation; fearful face task: fearful face minus fixation, neutral face minus fixation) were then entered into the random-effects group- or second-level analyses using a full factorial model. Separate models were computed for happy and fearful face tasks. Age, sex, and accuracy rates were included as covariates in each of the models. We performed a 3 2 ANCOVA including the three groups (BP-I, BP- NOS, HC) and two emotion conditions (emotional face: happy, orfearful, neutral) for each task (happy or fearful) separately. This provided an omnibus test of our hypotheses regarding group emotion condition interactions for each of the happy and fearful face tasks. Because we had strong region-based hypotheses of group differences, region-of-interest (ROI) analyses were conducted to examine betweengroup differences in neural activity in a priori ROIs, which were defined by Wake Forest University Pick Atlas. 30 Specifically, three predefined anatomical masks were used: bilateral amygdala; bilateral VMPFC, which also incorporated part of the ventrolateral cortex (BA 11/25/47); and bilateral DPFC (BA 9/46). To control for multiple voxelwise tests we used AlphaSim. 31 In all analyses, images were spatially thresholded based on the functional data within the area of the hypothesized ROI and cluster-level significance was thresholded for multiple comparisons (p.05) based on 10 4 Monte Carlo simulations from voxels across the individual ROIs. The number of contiguous voxels needed to maintain this false positive detection rate in each ROI was computed separately for each statistical model (happy, fearful). Post hoc analyses to identify between group differences in activity underlying any observed significant group emotion condition interactions in each ROI were performed in SPM5. Here, significant group emotion condition interaction statistical maps in ROIs were used as masks and independent t-tests examined between-group differences in activity in these maps for each emotion condition (happy/neutral; fearful/neutral), with AlphaSim correction. We also conducted exploratory whole-brain analyses to examine the extent to which group emotion condition interactions occurred throughout the brain. A random effects GM was used to examine activity patterns associated with the same contrasts as in the ROI analyses, using a threshold of p.05, uncorrected, k E 50 voxels, with small volume correction for clusters of interest. fmri Connectivity Analysis. Psychophysiological Interaction (PPI) is a valuable method of evaluating connectivity between the physiological response of a source region-of-interest and a psychological task of interest. 32 Specifically, PPI analysis reflects changes in a regression slope associated with the differential BOD response from one neural region under the influence of particular experimental contexts. 32 Thus, PPI provides information about the modulatory effects of an experimental condition on the functional coupling between two neural regions. PPI analysis consists of a design matrix with three regressors: (1) psychological regressor (e.g., happy-fixation), (2) physiological regressor, determined by the neural response in VMPFC, and (3) interaction term of (1) and (2), which is referred to as the PPI regressor. The PPI regressor refers to brain areas that show a greater functional connectivity with VMPFC during one of the emotional face conditions. At the first-level, a PPI regressor was created for each participant by computing an interaction term between the emotion condition effect (i.e., happy face task: happy minus fixation, neutral face minus fixation; fearful face task: fearful face minus fixation, neutral face minus fixation) and the mean seed region (VMPFC) time series. The seed region was extracted from a volume-of-interest (radius 2mm) centered on the significance peak of the condition-of-interest in left and right VMPFC, defined based on findings from previous studies pertaining to the role of the VMPFC in implicit emotion regulation. 5,33 The time series was then convolved with the paradigm (i.e., emotional face: happy or fearful minus fixation, neutral minus fixation) for each task (happy, fearful) separately and resultant interaction term was weighted -1 (indicating negative modulation), given that our main hypotheses focused on group differences in VMPFC-amygdala coupling and evidence of negative associations between these two regions. The resulting voxel-specific r-coefficients were converted to Z-scores images and entered into second-level random effects analyses testing for group differences and group emotion condition interactions. A GM was implemented to examine neural regions that showed significant increases in functional connectivity with seed activity (right VMPFC, left VMPFC) during task performance in BP-I youth, BP-NOS youth, and HC. We performed two separate ANCOVA models, including group (BP-I, BP-NOS, HC), emotion condition (emotional face: happy or fearful, neutral) and hemisphere (left, right) for each task (happy, fearful) separately. Age, sex, and accuracy rates were included as covariates in both models. In contrast to usual fmri analyses, our model included not only the experimental condition (emotional face: happy, or fearful, neutral) as the predictor variable but also activity level in the seed region (VMPFC) and interaction between the task and seed activity variables (PPI). Second-level analyses were restricted to any DPFC and amygdala target VOUME 50 NUMBER 12 DECEMBER
6 ADOUCEUR et al. ROIs, that showed connectivity with right and left VMPFC seed regions, and were thresholded at p We used AlphaSim correction (p.05), as described above, to correct for multiple voxelwise tests in clusters resulting from the interaction or main effects analyses as well as post hoc analyses. Exploratory Analyses Examining Relationships with Clinical Variables. Mean eigenvalues from clusters that survived AlphaSim correction in the above statistical analyses for activity and connectivity analyses were extracted for each participant and condition. Pearson correlational analyses were performed to examine relationships between neural activity and connectivity indices with scores on the clinical measures (i.e., K-MRS, K-DRS, MFQ, CAS, SCARED) in BP-I and BP-NOS youth as well as maximum scores from the K-MRS associated with manic symptoms (i.e., elation, irritability) in BP-NOS youth. Furthermore, the influence of comorbid diagnoses (i.e., ADHD, Anxiety Disorders) and medication on neural activity and connectivity was examined by stratifying each BP-I and BP-NOS group as a function of presence/absence of comorbid diagnoses (e.g., BP-I_withADHD/Anx, BP-I_withoutADHD/Anx) and taking/not taking psychotropic medications in Table 1 (e.g., BP-I_taking stimulants, BP-NOS_not taking stimulants). Separate t-tests were conducted comparing each subgroup within BP-I and BP-NOS groups. One set of analyses was conducted for the presence of ADHD and another for the presence of Anxiety Disorders (i.e., GAD, separation anxiety, social phobia); few participants had only one comorbid condition. Because of the low number of BP-I and BP-NOS youth who were unmedicated, we could not perform between-group comparisons of neural activity and connectivity measures between HC and unmedicated BP-I and HC and unmedicated BP-NOS. The statistical threshold was set at p 0.05 because of the exploratory nature of these analyses. RESUTS Demographic and Clinical Characteristics Groups did not significantly differ in age, sex, and, socio-economic status. There was a significant main effect of group for scores on parent MFQ, parent CAS, parent SCARED, and child SCARED, but not child MFQ, indicating that both BP-I and BP-NOS youth had significantly higher scores than HC on these measures. There were no significant differences between BP-I and BP-NOS youth in K-MRS and K-DRS scores, age of illness onset, number of comorbid diagnoses, or number of medications (Table 1). Behavioral Data Accuracy. There were no significant group effects or group emotion condition interactions (p.1). Reaction Times. For the happy-face task, there were no significant group effects or group emotion condition interactions (p.1). For the fearful-face task, there was no significant group emotion condition interaction (p.1). However, there was a significant group effect (F 2, , p.05). Post hoc comparisons indicated that BP-I youth were significantly slower than HC on this task (p.05); there were no significant differences between BP-I and BP-NOS youth, or BP-NOS youth and HC (p.1) (see Table S1, available online). fmri Data In the following section, we present the fmri and PPI results examining differences in the patterns of activity in, and connectivity between, neural regions implicated in emotion processing and regulation. To correct for multiple tests within the search volume of each of the ROIs, we used AlphaSim, which served as a familywise error (FWE) correction (p.05) using a spatial extent threshold. The number of contiguous voxels needed to maintain this false positive detection rate in each ROI was as follows: bilateral amygdala (happy: k E 16; fearful: k E 26), bilateral VMPFC (happy: k E 61; fearful: k E 61), bilateral DPFC (happy: k E 57; fearful: k E 55). Region-of-Interest Analyses Happy-Face Task. There was a significant group emotion condition interaction in bilateral amygdala, bilateral VMPFC, and bilateral DFPC (p.05, corrected) (Table 2). Post hoc betweengroup comparisons for happy faces revealed that relative to HC, BP-I youth had significantly greater activity in left amygdala, left VMPFC, and right DPFC (p.05, corrected) (Table 2; Figure 1A, 1B, 1C, respectively). There was a trend suggesting that BP-NOS also had greater activity in left VMPFC compared to HC but this contrast did not reach the corrected statistical threshold [t(95) 2.45, p.008, p.10, corrected) (Table 2; Figure 1B). Post hoc analyses for neutral faces revealed that relative to HC, BP- NOS, but not BP-I youth, had significantly reduced activity in left VMPFC, and right DPFC (Table 2, Figure 2A). BP-NOS had reduced ac VOUME 50 NUMBER 12 DECEMBER 2011
7 ABNORMA CONNECTIVITY IN BIPOAR YOUTH TABE 2 Regions Showing Greater and Reduced Activation in Response to Happy and Neutral Faces in Subjects With Bipolar Disorder Type I (BP-I) and Bipolar Disorder Not Otherwise Specified (BP-NOS) and in Healthy Controls (HC) Talairach Coordinates a Region k E Side X y Z Statistic Uncorrected p value Happy Face Task b Group Condition Amygdala c 36 R F F VMPFC c F R F DPFC c 1095 R F F Group Comparisons d Happy BP-I HC Amygdala c T VMPFC c T DPFC c 70 R T Happy BP-NOS HC VMPFC T Neutral BP-NOS HC VMPFC c T T DPFC c 543 R T Neutral BP-NOS BP-I Amygdala c T VMPFC c T DPFC c T R T Fearful Face Task e Group Condition DPFC c F Group Comparisons d Fear BP-I HC DPFC c T Neutral BP-NOS HC DPFC c T Note: DPFC dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; k E cluster size in voxels; left; R right; VMPFC ventromedial prefrontal cortex. a Each line in the table represents the voxel of peak activity difference within the specified region. b BP-I, n 18; BP-NOS, n 16; HC, n 18. c Survived familywise error correction using AlphaSim (p.05]. The following number of contiguous voxels were used (p.05]: bilateral amygdala (happy: k E 16; fearful: k E 26), bilateral VMPFC (happy: k E 61; fearful: k E 61), bilateral DPFC (happy: k E 57; fearful: k E 55). d Post hoc group comparisons: group contrasts that were masked with the significant group condition interaction map for each of the region-of-interest (ROI) analyses. e BP-I, n 17; BP-NOS, n 15; HC, n 18. tivity to neutral faces versus BP-I youth in left amygdala, left VMPFC, and bilateral DPFC (Table 2). Fearful-Face Task. There was a significant group emotion condition interaction in left DFPC (p.05, corrected). Post hoc between-group comparisons for fearful faces revealed that relative to HC, BP-I, but not BP-NOS youth, had reduced activity in left DPFC (Table 2). Post hoc analyses for neutral faces revealed that relative to HC, BP-NOS, but not BP-I youth, had reduced activity in left DPFC (Table 2, Figure 2B). There were VOUME 50 NUMBER 12 DECEMBER
8 ADOUCEUR et al. FIGURE 1 Statistical parametric map displaying between-group contrasts for happy faces masked with the significant group emotion condition interaction in the happy face task (left). Note: Histogram displaying mean eigenvalues extracted from the peak voxel of the cluster that reached statistical threshold (right). (A) Bipolar disorder type I (BP-I) healthy controls (HC) (left amygdala) [t(95) 2.93, p.002, p.05, corrected]. (B) BP-I HC (left ventromedial prefrontal cortex [VMPFC]) [t(95) 2.52, p.007, p.05, corrected]. There was a trend for bipolar disorder not otherwise specified (BP-NOS) HC (left VMPFC) [t(95) 2.45, p.008, p.10, corrected]. (C) BP-I HC (right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DPFC)) [t(95) 3.63, p.001, p.05, corrected]. Statistics and coordinates are given in Table 2. Color bars ranging from red to yellow represent T statistics. For display purposes, cluster threshold was set at 55 voxels. left. A. Amygdala y = -9 y=-9 T p<.05 eigenvalue BP-I BP-NOS HC B. VMPFC x = -30 x = -30 T 2 p< eigenvalue BP-I BP-NOS HC p<.05 C. DPFC y= 12 T eigenvalue BP-I BP-NOS HC 1282 VOUME 50 NUMBER 12 DECEMBER 2011
9 ABNORMA CONNECTIVITY IN BIPOAR YOUTH FIGURE 2 Statistical parametric map displaying between-group contrasts for neutral faces masked with the corresponding significant group emotion condition interaction statistical map (happy or fearful face task) (left). Note: Histogram displaying mean eigenvalues extracted from the peak voxel of the cluster that reached statistical threshold (right). (A) Bipolar disorder not otherwise specified (BP-NOS) healthy controls (HC) to neutral faces dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DPFC) [t(91) 3.24, p.001, p.05, corrected] masked with the significant group emotion condition interaction statistical map in the happy face task. (B) BP-NOS HC to neutral faces (DPFC) [t(91) 3.40, p.001, p.05, corrected] masked with the significant group condition interaction statistical map in the fearful face task. Statistics and coordinates are given in Table 2. Color bars ranging from red to yellow represent T statistics. For display purposes, cluster threshold was set at 55 voxels. left. A. DPFC (Happy face task) x = 39 T p<.05 1 eigenvalue BP-I BP-NOS HC B. DPFC (Fearful face task) z z= = 33 T p<.05 eigenvalue BP-I BP-NOS HC no significant differences in activity, however, between BP-I and BP-NOS youth for fearful or neutral faces. Whole-Brain Analyses Voxelwise whole-brain analyses also revealed group emotion condition interactions for the happy-face task in the superior frontal gyrus, superior temporal gyrus, and cerebellum and for the fearful-face task in the medial frontal gyrus, superior frontal gyrus, cerebellum, and visual areas (see Table S2, available online). Post hoc analyses that decomposed the significant group emotion condition interactions generally supported ROI analyses of reduced prefrontal cortical activation to neutral faces in BP-NOS youth and to fearful faces in BP-I youth relative to healthy controls (see Table S2, available online). fmri Connectivity Analysis For the happy-face task, PPI analysis showed a significant group effect for happy faces (vs. fixation) (F 2, , p.05, corrected, k E 93). Post hoc group contrasts masked with the group VOUME 50 NUMBER 12 DECEMBER
10 ADOUCEUR et al. FIGURE 3 (A) Neural connectivity between bilateral ventromedial prefrontal cortex (VMPFC) and right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DPFC) to happy faces. Note: Statistical parametric map (SPM-T) displaying a significant betweengroup contrast that was masked with the significant main effect of group statistical map (SPM-F) (F 2, , p.001; p.05, corrected, k E 93) (left). Relative to healthy controls (HC) (n 18), bipolar disorder not otherwise specified (BP-NOS) youth (n 16) showed significantly greater connectivity between ventromedial prefrontal cortex (VMPFC) and right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DPFC) (Talairach x, y, z: 15, 25, 29) to happy faces, [t(95) 3.87, p.001, p.05, corrected; k E 93]. (B) Neural connectivity between bilateral VMPFC and left amygdala to fearful faces. SPM-T displaying a significant between-group contrast that was masked with the significant main effect of SPM-F (F 2, , p.001, p.05, corrected, k E 19) (left). Relative to HC (n 18), BP-I youth (n 17) showed significantly reduced connectivity between VMPFC and left amygdala (Talairach x, y, z: 30, 2, 13) to fearful faces [t(91) 3.13, p.001, p.05, corrected; k E 17]. For A and B, histograms on the right display mean eigenvalues extracted from the peak voxel of the cluster that reached statistical threshold (right). Color bars ranging from red to yellow represent T statistics. For display purposes, cluster threshold was set at 55 voxels. left; PPI psychophysiological interaction. A. PPI in Happy Face Task x = 15 T p<.05 PPI eigenvalue BP-I BP-NOS HC B. PPI in Fearful Face Task y = 6 T 1.5 p<.05 1 PPI eigenvalue BP-I BP-NOS HC effect statistical map revealed that relative to HC, BP-NOS, but not BP-I youth, showed greater functional coupling between bilateral VMPFC and right DPFC to happy faces [t(95) 3.87, p.05, corrected, k E 93] (Figure 3A). BP-NOS youth also showed greater coupling between these regions than BP-I youth [t(95) 3.66, p.05, corrected, k E 70] (Figure 3A). For the fearful-face task, PPI analysis showed a significant group effect for fearful faces (vs. fixation) (F 2, , p.05, corrected, k E 19). Post hoc group contrasts masked with the group 1284 VOUME 50 NUMBER 12 DECEMBER 2011
11 ABNORMA CONNECTIVITY IN BIPOAR YOUTH effect statistical map revealed that relative to HC, BP-I, but not BP-NOS youth, showed less coupling between bilateral VMPFC and left amygdala to fearful faces [t(91) 3.13, p 0.05, corrected, k E 17] (Figure 3B). BP-I also showed less coupling between these regions than BP- NOS youth [t(95) 4.91, p.05, corrected, k E 19] (Figure 3B). Exploratory Analyses Examining Relationships With Clinical Variables Correlational analyses revealed a significant positive correlation for BP-NOS youth between mean K-DRS depression scores and PPI measures of VMPFC-DPFC connectivity to happy faces (r.73, p.05). There were no other significant correlations in either BP-I or BP-NOS between neural activity or connectivity measures and clinical measures (p.1). Within-group comparisons of neural activity and connectivity measures in BP-I and BP-NOS youth based on the presence/absence of a comorbid conditions (attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and/or anxiety disorders) and being on/off medications did not yield any significant group differences (p.1). Because BP-I youth had significantly slower reaction times on the fearful-face task, we examined correlations between reaction times and neural activity and connectivity measures extracted from the significant group contrasts in the fearful-face task for each of the groups. There were no significant correlations for either BP-I, BP-NOS, or HC youth (p.1). DISCUSSION The role of amygdala-prefrontal cortical circuitry in processing and regulating emotional information has been documented, with specific patterns of abnormal functioning reported mainly in BP- I. 6,10,34 To our knowledge, this is the first study to examine whether BP-I and BP-NOS youth show similar patterns of abnormal activity in, and connectivity between, neural regions supporting emotion processing and regulation. We hypothesized that both BP-I and BP-NOS, relative to HC youth, would show significantly elevated amygdala and reduced VMPFC/VPFC and DPFC activity to emotional faces but that this pattern of neural activity would be attenuated in BP-NOS relative to that shown by BP-I youth- (versus HC). Furthermore, we hypothesized reduced VMPFC-amygdala connectivity to emotional faces in both BP-I and BP-NOS youth (versus HC). Our findings partially support our hypotheses. That is, BP-I youth versus HC did show elevated activity in key emotion processing and regulation regions to happy faces and reduced DPFC activity to fearful faces. This pattern was not observed, however, in BP-NOS versus HC. Rather they showed reduced prefrontal cortical activity to neutral faces versus HC. Moreover, BP-I versus HC showed reduced VMPFCamygdala coupling to fearful faces, which was not observed in BP-NOS. Rather, BP-NOS exhibited greater VMPFC-DPFC coupling to happy faces versus HC and BP-I youth. Together, these findings suggest that, relative to healthy controls, BP-I and BP-NOS youth exhibit different patterns of neural activation and connectivity when processing emotional facial expressions. In order to better understand these differential patterns of abnormal activation and connectivity in BP-NOS youth relative to BP-I youth, we first discuss findings in BP-I youth in relation to the extant neuroimaging literature in BP-I youth. Our findings of elevated amygdala and VMPFC activity to happy faces and reduced DPFC to fearful faces in BP-I versus HC youth are consistent with results from previous studies using the same gender labeling task in BP-I adults. 28,35 Elevated amygdala activity to happy faces may reflect greater attentional bias and associated appraisal while elevated VMPFC activity may index greater implicit regulation of emotional responses toward these positive emotional stimuli in BP-I youth. 5,16 Although we did not replicate previous findings of elevated amygdala activity to fearful faces in BP-I youth versus HC, 6,9 we did replicate previous findings of reduced DPFC to fearful faces reported in adult bipolar patients. 35 Such reduction in DPFC activity to fearful faces in BP-I youth may reflect reduced orienting to these negative emotional stimuli in bipolar individuals, as there is evidence to suggest that, during emotion processing, the orienting of attention toward emotional stimuli places demands on DPFC. 36 The pattern of elevated, rather than reduced, DPFC activity to happy faces in BP-I youth in the present study may therefore reflect greater recruitment of orientingrelated attentional and effortful regulatory resources in BP-I youth versus HC. Our findings in BP-I youth are also largely consistent with find- VOUME 50 NUMBER 12 DECEMBER
12 ADOUCEUR et al. ings from the few extant studies in BP-I youth that reported abnormally elevated amygdala and prefrontal cortical activity to happy or positive emotional stimuli, and abnormally reduced DPFC activity to threat-related stimuli. In particular, our findings of elevated amygdala activity to happy faces are consistent with recent findings of elevated amygdala activity during gender labeling of happy faces in BP-I youth versus HC 9 and passive viewing of happy and angry faces in euthymic BP-I youth versus HC. 7 With regard to connectivity, BP-I youth displayed reduced connectivity versus HC between VMPFC and left amygdala to fearful faces. Few studies have examined amygdala-prefrontal connectivity in pediatric bipolar disorder. The only study, to our knowledge, reported reduced connectivity between left amygdala and cortical association regions in BP-I youth versus HC to neutral faces subjectively rated as threatening. 13 Given the role of VMPFC in modulating amygdala activity, our findings of reduced VMPFCamygdala connectivity to fearful faces may be associated with altered functional maturation of the VMPFC in BP-I youth. 37 The major findings in BP-NOS youth from the current study were unexpected. The neural activation findings suggest that BP-NOS youth exhibit reduced prefrontal cortical activation compared with HC to neutral faces when these faces are presented in the context of emotional faces (i.e. happy and fearful faces). There was, however, a trend effect suggesting that BP-NOS youth did exhibit, similar to BP-I youth versus HC, greater VMPFC activity to happy faces than HC. With regard to findings associated with neutral faces, there is evidence to suggest that emotional context can affect perception of, and neural activity to, neutral faces. 36 Reductions in DPFC activity to neutral faces in each of the two experiments (and in VMPFC to neutral faces in the happy experiment) in BP-NOS relative to HC, and reduced amygdala, VMPFC and DPFC activity to neutral faces (in the happy experiment) in BP-NOS relative to BP-I, may therefore suggest that BP-NOS youth perceived neutral faces as less salient in the context of emotional faces such as happy or fearful facial expressions, than did HC or BP-I, but this requires further study. Taken together, neuroimaging findings to happy faces in BP-NOS relative to BP-I and HC indicate that BP-NOS may represent an intermediate state between being healthy and having BP-I. The reduced activity in prefrontal cortical regions, and prefrontal cortical regions and amygdala, to neutral faces presented in the happy experiment, in BP-NOS versus HC and BP-I, respectively, could represent a potential biological mechanism that prevents BP-NOS youth from developing more severe symptoms of bipolar disorder. Given the paucity of neuroimaging research in BP-NOS youth, however, these interpretations remain speculative. With regard to functional connectivity, BP- NOS youth compared with HC exhibited greater VMPFC-DPFC coupling while viewing happy faces. According to animal models and recent neuroimaging studies, the DPFC plays an indirect role in modulating the amygdala through connections via the VMPFC. 5,38 Thus, it is possible that greater VMPFC-DPFC coupling in BP- NOS youth may explain why there was a trend for elevated VMPFC and DPFC activity, but reduced amygdala activity, to happy faces in BP-NOS versus HC. Greater VMPFC-DPFC coupling to happy faces in BP-NOS youth may therefore reflect enhanced recruitment of cognitive control resources during modulation of attention to perform the gender labeling task with happy faces, and is consistent with findings from a recent study demonstrating greater DPFC activation during incidental versus direct processing of happy faces in euthymic BP-I youth versus HC. 34 Our exploratory correlational analyses indicated that VMPFC-DPFC coupling to happy faces was greater in BP-NOS youth with more severe depressive symptoms at the time of the scan. Such findings may be interpreted as suggesting that depressed BP-NOS youth may need to recruit more attentional resources when processing mood incongruent positive stimuli such as happy faces, but this should be the focus of future studies. The fact that the BP-NOS youth did not exhibit reduced VMPFC-amygdala connectivity to fearful faces compared with HC suggests that, unlike BP-I youth, functioning of these regulatory systems may be less affected in BP-NOS youth. It is possible that, like BP-I youth, BP-NOS youth may tend toward having elevated neural activity to emotional stimuli but that such activity is dampened by compensatory patterns of activity such as greater coupling in regulatory systems, as shown with happy faces. Such compensatory patterns in BP-NOS youth may not be observed in contexts that do not elicit elevated neural 1286 VOUME 50 NUMBER 12 DECEMBER 2011
13 ABNORMA CONNECTIVITY IN BIPOAR YOUTH responses in BP-NOS youth, for example, fearful faces. Previous findings in adult BP-I do, for example, indicate elevated amygdala and striatal activity to happy faces more than to fearful faces. 16,35 As such, there may be less need for recruitment of DPFC regulatory circuitry in either youth patient group in the present study to fearful relative to happy faces. Our findings would then suggest that while BP-I youth adopted an inefficient strategy (given the presence of elevated amygdala activity to happy faces in BP-I youth) of activating DPFC to happy faces, BP-NOS youth adopted a preferable strategy (given the absence of elevated amygdala activity in BP-NOS youth to these faces) of recruiting VMPFC- DPFC connectivity. These differential patterns of connectivity in BP-I and BP-NOS youth relative to HC youth suggest that these groups do not share the same profile of alterations in the functioning of neural systems implicated in emotion processing and regulation. Further research is needed to better understand associations between such differential patterns and clinical presentation of bipolar disorder in youth. Exploratory whole-brain analyses supported some of the ROI findings, particularly with regard to prefrontal cortical regions, as well as findings from emotional face processing neuroimaging studies. 17 In particular, the group by emotion condition interaction for both the happy and fearful face tasks showed VMPFC activation. Other regions implicated in this interaction were the cerebellum, temporal cortex, and visual cortical regions. Although there were no significant findings in the amygdala in any of the wholebrain interactions, findings from these analyses did indicate recruitment of temporal regions, which are implicated in emotional information processing. 17 Further, results from the post hoc analyses following the significant group by condition interactions generally supported ROI analyses of reduced prefrontal cortical activation to neutral faces in BP-NOS youth and to fearful faces in BP-I youth relative to healthy controls In contrast to our ROI findings yielding mostly bilateral findings, however, whole-brain analyses for the group by emotion condition interaction suggested a certain degree of laterality with mostly right hemispheric activation for the happy face task and left hemispheric activation for the fearful face condition. Findings from meta-analyses suggest that emotional face processing typically recruits bilateral prefrontalsubcortical regions. 39 There is, however, evidence of valence-specific lateralization of brain response during negative emotion processing, particularly in left amygdala. 39 Given the exploratory nature of our whole-brain analyses, these findings pertaining to laterality associated with emotional face processing in BP-NOS should be considered preliminary, and would require further study. Certain limitations merit consideration. First, most BP-I and BP-NOS youths were medicated, which prevented us from comparing unmedicated BP-I and BP-NOS youth to HC. However, prior work suggests that medications may reduce group differences in activation. 40 Second, there was no emotion labeling task to account for the possible deficits in emotion labeling in BP-I youth, given recent findings suggesting emotional face processing deficits in BP-I youth. 41,42 However, gender-labeling accuracy scores, which were included as covariates in the analyses, suggest that all youth attended to the stimuli equally well. Nevertheless, future studies should include an emotion labeling task either inside or outside of the scanner to investigate this issue further. Third, our sample size precluded the testing of a full group by emotion condition by hemisphere interaction. As such, PPI analyses were performed for each emotional face versus fixation separately. The valence specific group differences argue against a general face processing explanation of the functional connectivity analyses. Fourth, although differences in mood state between BP-I and BP-NOS could have impacted results, we did not find any significant group differences on mania or depression scores from interviews conducted at the time of the scan. However, high depression scores were positively correlated with VMPFC-DPFC coupling in BP-NOS only suggesting that mood may have a differential role on emotion processing and regulation in this group and is an issue that requires further examinations. This is the first study to demonstrate differential patterns of abnormal activity in, and connectivity between, amygdala-prefrontal cortical regions supporting emotion processing and regulation in youth with BP-I and BP-NOS versus HC. Our findings indicate that BP-I youth exhibit greater activation in corticolimbic regions to happy faces, reduced DPFC activation to fearful faces, and prefrontal-amygdala disconnectivity to fearful faces, versus HC. BP-NOS VOUME 50 NUMBER 12 DECEMBER
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